games unsuitable for children

[Ben Armstrong]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:14:42 +0100 (CET)
Miriam Ruiz <little_miry at yahoo.es> wrote:
> I totally agree with this. Do you think about a best way to do this advice? A
> message at the starting of the game? Putting a comment in the description? a
> suitable DebTag for that? A weblog?
> 
> Maybe we could also coordinate with debian-jr and/or debian-edu for making the
> cassification?

Should this be just our own opinion, or should we rely on some external authority?  This is a general problem for all distributions, not just Debian.  Who else might have an interest in setting up a game rating system?

> The main critic I can think of is how and who can classify the games, but I
> think we could find a solution to that :)

ESRB ratings are widely used and understood for commercial games.

http://www.esrb.org/

The problem is, ESRB ratings are designed for the commercial game industry, so they're not really set up in a way that would work well for open source game developers.  But perhaps we could borrow their categories.

Ben
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